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(No ModelL) W. V. S.A BASTIAN. POCKET PROTECTOR.

No. 438,674. Patented 001;, 21, 1890.

y l E UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM V. S. BASTIAN, OF CHERRY VALLEY, ASSIGN OR TO HOWARD L.BROVNING, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

POCKET-PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 438,674, dated October21, 1890. lApplication filed October 26, 1889. Serial No. 328,251. (Nomodel.)

.To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM V. S. BAs- TIAN, of the town of CherryValley, county of Otsego, and State of New York, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Pocket- Protectors, of which the following is aspeciication.

My invention relates to pocket-protectors, and has for its object toprovide a complete safeguard or device for practically closing the mouthof a pocket and retaining it in that position, which shall at the sametime be simple and cheap, and which can be applied to any garment or anysized pocket, said application tending in no way to alter the appearanceof the garment; and it consists of a spring-piece formed of a fiat stripof spring material doubled upon itself with its ends laid free on eachother, as hereinafter described, and as shown in the drawings.

Accompanying this specification and forming a part of it is one plate ofdrawings containing ve (5) igures illustrating my invention, in all ofwhich similar letters refer to corresponding parts.

Figure l shows a portion of a garment containing a pocket with myimproved protector attached, a part of the fabric being torn away topermit a partial view of the protector to be had, the remainder beingindicated by dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view takenon the line of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a View of my improved pocket-protectorcornposed of the metallic spring-piece C, provided with the arms c andc. Fig. 4 is a view of my improved pocket-protector provided witheyelets or eyes n n for attaching the same to a pocket by sewing. Fig. 5is a sectional view of a garment containing a pocket with my improvedprotector attached, taken on the line y 'y of Fig. 1.

In the construction of my invention I employ a strip of any compositionor substance which when bent will form a spring, preferablyspring-steel, of suitable width and of a length somewhat greater thantwice the width of the pocket-opening it is desired to secure. Thisstrip is doubled, forming the double-bow or elliptical spring-piece C,as shown in Fig. 3, the strip being bent back on itself with the endsresting loosely together. This construction permits the free ends to bedrawn apart when the hand is placed between the arms of the spring andto return to their closed position when the separating medium i'swithdrawn or passed below the spring into the pocket.

There are various methods of applying my invention to pockets, one ofwhich is to cover the limbs c and c with tape or some similar material,and, inclosing the top of the pocket B Within said limbs, attach theprotector thereto by sewing.

Another method of application is to construct casings at the top of thepocket on either side and to slip one of said limbs into each of saidcasings, as shown in Fig. 1.

Still another method is to furnish the protector with eyes oreyelet-holes, as shown in Fig. 4, and to attach it directly to the topof the pocket and around it by sewing.

In the drawings, A designates the garment, and O the opening to thepocket.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

In a safety-pocket, the combination, with the body of the pocket, of theclosing device O, consisting of a single straight and fiat piece ofspring material bent into an elliptic or double-bow shape, with the freeends resting loosely on each other, substantially as described, and forthe purpose specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of October,A. D. 1889.

VILLIAM V. S. BASTIAN.

